Then I tried what just about everyone suggests with a ‘windows’ drive… NTFS-Config. Well, it couldn’t see my fat32 drives. Just ntfs. What finally worked was… drumroll… samba share.

Yeah, kinda trick-fraked the system if you will. Just set to share the whole drive and folders etc, basically giving away permissions to the network. This is obviously not the best long-term solution, and I’ll have to see if those permissions stay intact if I cut down the share permissions and add security.

But for now at least, I’m the owner of my 1/2 tb drive 🙂

Update2: apparently that didn’t work as intended. It went 1 folder deep. So, I did some more searching and found an old wiki from Ubuntu 06.04 which gave an echo script. For writing to fstab, which didn’t work in 10.10. So I messed around with the fstab for a while and FINALLY found a page which had the usage as: “/dev/hda1 /media/whatever vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0″ haha, now its perfect. Just need to go back and check my share settings… etc. will post the page I found this on in a bit. Whew!